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that any such employee, with the exception of an office employee,
shall be paid at one and one third times the normal rate for any
time worked in excess of forty (40) hours in any one week.
 2. No watchman shall be permitted to work in excess of fifty-six
 (56) hours per week averaged over a two weeks' period and in no
event shall be permitted to work in excess of six days in any seven-
day period.
 3. No fireman shall be permitted to work in excess of forty-two
(42) hours in any one week.
 4. No other employee, except employees engaged in a managerial
capacity, receiving at least thirty-five ($35.00) dollars a week and
outside salesmen shall be permitted to work in excess of forty (40)
hours in any one week or ten (10) hours in any twenty-four-hour
period.
 5. The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing section shall not
apply to any employee on emergency maintenance or emergency
repair work involving breakdowns or protection of life or prop-
erty, but in any such special case at least one and one third times
his normal rate shall be paid for hours worked in excess of the
maximum hours herein provided.
 6. No employee shall be permitted to work more than twenty-four
(24) days in any twenty-eight (28) day period.
 7. In the event of an emergency due to war, epidemic, catastrophe,
or Act of God wherein the public health is threatened, the stipula-
tion regarding maximum hours of employment shall be temporarily
suspended, and such suspension shall be forthwith reported to the
Administrator.
 ARTICLE IV-VAGES

 1. No office employee shall be paid at. less than the rate of fifteen
($15.00) dollars per week in any City of over 500,000 population,
or in the immediate trade area of such City; not less than fourteen
dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) per week in any City of between
250,000 and 500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of
such City; nor less than fourteen ($14.00) dollars per week in any
City of less than 250,000 population, or in the immediate trade
area of such City.
 2. No other employee shall be paid at less than the rate of thirty-
two and one half cents (321.-) per hour, except that a learner dur-
ing a period of six weeks may be paid a rate of not less than
eighty (80%c) percent. of the foregoing minimum rate provided,
however, that such classification of learners shall not exceed five
(5'%) percent of the total number of employees of any employer.
 No employee shall be classed as a learner who has worked for any
employer in the Industry a total of eight (8) weeks within the
preceding two (2) years.
 3. This Article establishes a minimum rate of pay which shall
apply irrespective of whether an employee is actually compensated
on a time-rate, piecework, or other basis.
 4. Rates of pay in excess of the minimum established by this Code
shall be adjusted so as to preserve equitable differentials between the
various occupations in the Industry. A definite plan for the adjust-
ment of those wages above the minimum herein prescribed shall be